Giovanni Buttarelli

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Giovanni Buttarelli

Giovanni Buttarelli (born June 24, 1957 in Frascati ; † August 20, 2019 in Milan ) was an Italian civil servant who was European Data Protection Supervisor from 2014 to 2019 .

Life

Buttarelli was born in 1957 in Frascati, a small town near Rome . He graduated with “cum laude” from the University of La Sapienza in Rome in 1984 , where he also worked as a research assistant at the Faculty of Law. In 1989 he was appointed Judge at the Avezzano Court of Justice. He worked with Franco Cordero in criminal proceedings until 1990. In 2005 he became a professor in the Law Faculty of Libera Università Maria Ss. Assunta where he taught on the protection of personal data and fundamental rights in Italy and Europe.

He was appointed to the committee of the EU project PACT ("Public Perception of Security and Privacy: Assessing Knowledge, Collecting Evidence, Translating Research Into Action") of the Institute for Peace Research. He was also a member of the Italian judiciary with the rank of judge of the Supreme Court of Cassation .

Together with 138 other national representatives, he signed the Italian Manifesto for a Digital Agenda in 2011. He wrote regularly for specialist books and magazines at European and national level and is the author of a large number of articles.

Buttarelli died on August 20, 2019 at the age of 62. Four days later, a funeral was held in the Saint Rocco Church in Frascati in the metropolitan city of Rome .

Career

Legal Department of the Italian Ministry of Justice (1989–1997)

From 1989 to 1997 Buttarelli was an advisor in the legal department of the Italian Ministry of Justice.

He has worked with various ministers and has been involved in the drafting and follow-up of numerous regulatory provisions, particularly in the areas of criminal law, criminal procedure and data protection. He was also a member of several inter-ministerial committees dealing with issues such as immigration, racial discrimination, community fraud, decriminalization, tax reforms, computer crime law, access to confidential records and digitization of public administrations.

He was the author of the Italian Data Protection Act No. 675/96 on the processing of personal data.

Council of Europe (1990-2019)

In 1990 Buttarelli was appointed a member of various working groups and committees, including the Advisory Committee of Convention 108 , the Center for Just Peace and Democracy, the Group of Specialists in Access to Public Information and the Working Group on Data Protection in Police and Criminal Matters.

As an expert appointed by the Council of Europe , he prepared the report and draft guidelines on video-surveillance (2003) and the report and draft recommendation on the protection of personal data processed for employment purposes (2011-2013). He was also an advisor to the Venice Commission for an opinion on video surveillance and privacy rights.

In addition, Buttarelli was a member of various council working groups, such as B. Negotiating Directives No. 95/46 / EC (current EU data protection directive) and 97/66 / EC (for the protection of privacy in the telecommunications sector). He participated in the Article 31 committee of the Directive No. 95/46 / EC until 1999 and was a member of the Article 29 data protection group set up by the Directive 95/46 / EC .

During the Italian EU Council Presidency in 1996, he headed the working group that drafted the common position on Directive No. 97/66 / EC data protection directive for electronic communications .

Italian Data Protection Authority and European Data Protection Supervisor (1997-2019)

From 1997 to 2009, Buttarelli was Secretary General of the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali , the Italian data protection authority. He was President of the Joint Supervisory Authority, which was set up in the framework of the Schengen Agreement in 2002-2003 , after he was Vice-President of the Authority from 2000 to 2001. In 2011 he was elected chairman of the CIS Customs Supervision Coordination Group. In 2014 he succeeded Peter Johan Hustinx in the role of European Data Protection Supervisor, after having been Deputy Data Protection Officer from 2009 to 2014. On 4 December 2014 he was appointed European Data Protection Supervisor EDPS by a joint decision of the European Parliament and the Council. In this role, he should have a five-year term.

Moscow Mechanism (2010-2017)

After the appointment of the Italian Foreign Minister, Buttarelli was placed on the OSCE's Resource List of the Moscow Mechanism for six years , including high-ranking personalities experienced in humanity issues who can be expected to carry out their duties impartially, and those of the Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (ODIHR, Office on Democratic Institutions and Human Rights) are available to help resolve specific issues related to respect for human rights and humanity.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ BOLLETTINO UFFICIALE del Ministero della Giustizia. (PDF) Italian Ministry of Justice , November 15, 2014, p. 2 , accessed on August 22, 2019 (Italian).
  2. ^ Stefan Krempl: European data protection officer Giovanni Buttarelli has died. In: heise online . August 21, 2019, accessed August 22, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Notice , press release from the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS), August 21, 2019, accessed on August 26, 2019
  4. ^ John Smith: The EDPS Worldwide. November 11, 2016, accessed August 28, 2019 .
  5. ↑ 3. Il Garante per la protezione dei dati personali - Relazione 1997-30 ... - Garante Privacy. Retrieved August 28, 2019 .
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SURNAME Buttarelli, Giovanni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian judge and privacy expert
DATE OF BIRTH June 24, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Frascati
DATE OF DEATH 20th August 2019
Place of death Milan